A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



eighth part of a knight's fee here in 1240'^ and held 

 three parts of half a fee of the honour of Clare in 

 1242-3.^'- He presented to the church in 1247^^ and 

 was succeeded before 1261 b_\' Robert deNowers,*'' who 

 may be the Sir Robert son of Sir Ralph de Xowers who 

 in 1 285 granted lands here to Thorney Abbey, reserving 



Drayton and Robert le Lord'" were returned as holding 

 Lowick apparently as feolTees. John de Nowers, who 

 died in 1327, was succeeded b) his grandson John, son 

 of his son John.^' Grace, widow of John de Nowers, 

 the grandfather, was holding an eighth of a fee in 1346,'^''' 

 and presented to the church in 1349.^^ In 1357, Roger 



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to himself 6 ' stikkes ' of eels yearly.'^ Robert was 

 followed by William de Nowers, who married Isabella, 

 daughter and co-heiress of Peter de Goldington, in the 

 time of Henry HI.'* Robert de Nowers, possibly as 

 trustee, granted the advowson and land in Lowick to 

 Almaric son of William and Isabella, in 1303." John, 

 son of Almaric, in l3l3conveyed, possibly in settlement, 

 the manor and advowson to John de Chetyngdon and 

 Elizabeth his wife,'" who in the following year were 

 returned as holding with Henry de Dccn half a fee in 

 Lowick and Stanion.'" In 1316 Robert de Verc, 

 Robert de Ardcrne, Jolin de Tychmarsh, Simon de 



Tony, evidently a trustee, granted to John de Nowers 

 and Maud his wife an acre of land in Lowick called 

 Lolesacrc, the advowson of the church, and the 

 reversion of the manor of Lowick.-' John de Nowers 

 in 1364 granted to John Barker a rent of 8 marks from 

 tenements in Cliestcr and Lowick.^"' Hctwecn this 

 last date and 1367 the manor and advowson had passed 

 to Sir Henry Green of Boughton, and from this date it 

 followed the manor of Drayton (q.v.). 



This manor of DRAT'TON passed, after the for- 

 feiture by the Bishop of Coutancc in 1088, to cither 

 Aubrey dc Vere, senior, or his son Aubrey the Cham- 



" Fcft of F. Northanti. caie 173, 

 file 29, no. 395. 



" nk. of Ftei, ii, 937. 



'* Bridget, op. cit. ii, 247. 



" Feet of F. Northantt. caic 174, file 

 ^f>, no. 802. 



"Red Bk. of Thorney, pt. iv, fol. 23 ; 

 L>nid. MS. 1029, fol. 86b. 



'• /Ihbrn. I'lac. (Rec. Com.), 187. 



" Feet of F. Northanti. 32 F.dw. I, 

 caie 175, file 60, no. 457. 



" Ibid. ca«c 175, file 64, no. 134 ; John 

 died in 1 327 ; he married Grace, daughter 

 of Robert FitzNicl. Other members of 

 the Noweri family were granting lands to 

 Chetyngdon, Inq. a.q.d. 10 Edw. II, cxx, 

 14; Cat. Pal. 1317-21, p. 238 J 1354-8, 

 p. 284. 



'• Ca/. Inq. Edw. II, v, no. 538; 

 Chin. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), Ixviii, 62 ; 

 Pytchley, Bk. 0/ Ftti (Northanti Rec. 

 Soc), 93. 



"> Feud. Aids, iv, 29. 



" I'.C.U. Buiks. iv, 345; Wrotteiley 

 I'ed. from Vlea R. 2;, 126; Agnei, 

 widow apparently of John de Noweri, 

 who died v. p., was holding in 1344. Feet 

 of F. Northanls. case 177, file 77, no. 261. 



" Frud. Aids, iv, 449. 



" Bridges, loc. cit. 



"Col. Close, 1354-60, p. 407; Close 

 R. 31 Edw. Ill, m. 15. 



"Co/. Close, 1364-8, p. 54. 



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